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FOUNDERS' DAY 



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Baptist Mission 

Trading Post 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1909 

AT HALF AFTER TWO O'CLOCK 

AT THE LADIES' LITERARY CLUB, SHELDON STREET 

IN HONOUR OF 

LOUIS AND SOPHIE DE MARSAC CAMPAU 

FIRST SETTLERS AND FOUNDERS OF THE CITY OF 
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 

IN 1827 

UNDER THE AUSPICES 
OF THE 

SOPHIE DE MARSAC CAMPAU CHAPTER 
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 




programme 

Invocation 

Michigan, My Michigan 

HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS, DIRECTOR MISS BUTZ 

Reading of High School Prize Essay 

"How Michigan Became a State" 

BY THE SUCCESSFUL CONTESTANT 

Presentation of Prizes 

BY THE CHAPTER REGENT 

In Memoriam 

MRS. E. P. FULLER (1826-1909) Honorary Vice Regent of the 
Sophie de Marsac Campau Chapter 

Report of the Sophie de Marsac Campau Memorial Committee 

MRS. JAMES P. BRAYTON 



The Inception of Founders' Day 

MRS. JAMES H. CAMPBELL. Chapter Regent 






Address 

THE HONORABLE GEORGE E. ELLIS, Mayor of Grand Rapids 

Louis Campau (1791-1871) Fur Trader, First Settler, Founder 
of the City of Grand Rapids in 1827 

CAPTAIN CHARLES E. BELKNAP 

Sophie de Marsac Campau — Gentlewoman (1825-1869) 

MRS. J. C. BUCHANAN 

Presentation of the Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Campau 

By MRS. FRANCES E. CAMPAU DANFORTH 
MRS. ANNA CAMPAU BABY 

The portraits were painted by Charles H. Moore, a Grand 
Rapids artist, son of Judge Lovell Moore, about 1850 

Reading, "Bury Me With My Grand Army Badge on My 
Breast" Poem by Adelphe T. Campau (1841-1909) 

MRS. I. PLATT POWELL 

Reading of Mrs. Harriet Guild Burton's Statement of the 

Bringing of the Guild Family to Grand Rapids by 

Louis Campau, June 23rd, 1833 

MISS BARR, a descendant of Joel Guild 

From Fur Trading Post to Mansion, from Mansion to Cottage 

A retrospective View by Old Time Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Campau 

Music, "America" 

HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS 



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